September 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Redirect connection to another IP Address
by Adam Leach 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Hi, I've still got this spammer trying to use my machine to send Spam. My ISP (NTLWorld) seem either over worked, or isn't going to take any action. So how can I redirect any connections to port 25 from a specific ip address to connect to another ip address. Basically I would like to redirect all the connections back to the spammers machine if possible. Is this possible, or could this cause more problems. Regards Adam

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SuSE couldn't find all .mp3 and .ogg files...
by Chun Ki Shin 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

hi, all... Well, I don't know why.....but, SuSE doesn't detect all .mp3 and .ogg files in Windows drives. Yes, one folder just shows 6 files out of 12 and some folders show nothing even though I played all in Windows. How can I fix this...? Shin, _________________________________________________________________

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URGENTLY NEED HELP - Postfix and spam
by Adam Leach 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

I've just noticed in the last two days something has gone horribly wrong with Postfix on SuSE 8.1. My machine has got a massive queue of emails that it is attempting to send to AOL customers that I never sent myself. AOL is refusing connections, so these emails are sitting in the queue. I've just quickly done a few mail relay tests and all passed. Now I'm not sure if it is due to the Spammer being on the same ISP as myself or due to some other problem with Postfix. His ip address is very close to mine Spammer = 81.99.191.26 & Mine = 81.99.191.*** I had configured it to "Soft Bounce" emails as I've been testing a few things. How can I remove all these emails from the queue, as it is sending hundreds of requests to AOLs mail servers, and this is probably not a good idea. I've disabled postfix with rcpostfix stop, but what do I do now. Please help Adam

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Bouncing email?
by Örn Hansen 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

I sent an email to the list the other day, and today there were a few of these letters in my mailbox: >Die E-Mail, die Sie am Sun, 28 Sep 2003 18:38:14 +0200 an >suse-linux-e(a)suse.com gesendet haben, konnte nicht zugestellt werden, da die >E-Mail Adresse suse-linux-e(a)suse.com nicht existiert. Achten Sie auf die >richtige Schreibung der E-Mail Adresse und versuchen Sie es erneut. Sollten >Sie wieder diese E-Mail erhalten, vergewissern Sie sich, das der Empfänger >(noch) ein Mitglied unseres E-Mail Dienstes ist.

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laptop problem with external display problem
by Julie Xu 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Greeting, After installed SuSE v8.2, my Toshiba laptop can not bring X window up on the display which linked to the dock (Toshiba Advanced Port Replicator. My screen is Philips 170B. The console is ok? I was tried to change X11 setting, but, it seems not successful for me. How I can make the X window up on multi-screen? Any comments will be appreciated Thanks in advance Julie Xu Data Communication Team Information Technology Directorate University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 Penrith South DC NSW 1797

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Solaris 8 NIS client didn't recognize Linux NIS master server users
by "Andrés A. Nogueiras Meléndez" 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Hi everybody. === Scenario (4 machines) === Linux SuSE 8.2 as NIS master Two Linux SuSE 8.2 as NIS client Sparc Solaris 8 as NIS client === Configuration === two users: (the same on the three machines) # ypcat passwd prueba00:*Hidden*:2001:2001:NIS test user:/home/prueba00:/bin/sh prueba01:*Hidden*:2002:2001:NIS test user:/home/prueba01:/bin/sh # ypcat group nistest:x:2001: === Simptoms ==== On the two linux machines everything goes fine, the two users can login, work, share files, etc... but in the sparc the users can't log in In the linux machine, as root, # touch ./test # chown 2001:2001 ./test # ls -l --rw-r--r-- 1 prueba00 nistest 0 2003-09-29 11:58 test In the sparc machine, as root, # touch ./test # chown 2001:2001 ./test # ls -l --rw-r--r-- 1 2001 nistest 0 2003-09-29 11:59 test I've check everything from the NIS-HOWTO, The chapters 7 trough 10 from the Sys Adm Guide from solaris and, of course, do a search on Google. But nothing changed. Can somebody enlightme? Best Regards, -- -- Yo uso linux, y descubrí que usando windows se gasta más, -- -- se produce menos y pagan igual -- [--------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Prof. Andres Augusto Nogueiras Melendez ] [ Departamento de Tecnologia Electronica - Universidad de Vigo ] [ Campus Lagoas Marcosende, 9 http://www.dte.uvigo.es ] [ 36280 - Vigo, Pontevedra mailto:andres.nogueiras@dte.uvigo.es ] [ Spain tel: +34 986 812 091 fax: +34 986 469 547 ] [--------------------------------------------------------------------]

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Raid 1 on SuSE 7.2
by Chris Roubekas 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Dear friends, I have recently setup a SuSE 7.2 box with 3 hard disks: 1) 6GB With SuSE 7.2 (Disk0) 2) 200 GB Empty Disk (Disk1) 3) 200 GB Empty Disk (Disk2) I have installed SuSE of Disk0. Have created my raidtab file in /etc/raidtab with all the necessary information to create the raid array. Raidtab looks like this: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 4 persistent-superblock 1 device /dev/hdb raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc raid-disk 1 Have created /dev/md0 with Raid 1 and the sync has finished after about 21 hours. I have formated md0 with the Normal option that Yast gave me and have directed yast to mount this array on /data which I have created. When i reboot the machine, it stops and tells me to enter the system with root password, to run fsck manually and fix any partition problems etc... (I am not at the screen right now). Can Someone tell me a general how-to in order to create this?? I will use this array with Samba and filesharing will be initiated once it is setup properly!! My guide so far has been: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html Can you tell me of something else perhaps that I am missing?? Thank you. Chris

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Equivalent for Business Objects
by oguz eren 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Is there a reporting client like BusinessObjects for linux? I need a client that can communicate with mysql and db2, allow creating universes, building & formatting reports and graphics. Thanks..

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Re: reiserfs prob after YOU update (solved)
by oguz eren 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

I checked, but no corruptions were found. Then i re-installed the kernel by booting from suse dvd, and my problem is solved. It was sth about the kernel patch. Thanks for your help.

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Getting "meld" working, preferaby under KDE
by Michael.James＠csiro.au 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Anyone got meld ( http://meld.sf.net ) working under Suse? It's a tool for merging source trees, or CVS versions. Suse has all the listed dependencies and with a bit of googling I managed to get them up to acceptable versions but still bomb out with a python error. jam176@suse:~/src/meld/meld-0.8.5> ./meld Traceback (most recent call last): File "./meld", line 60, in ? import meldapp File "./meldapp.py", line 28, in ? import gnomeglade File "./gnomeglade.py", line 24, in ? import gnome.ui ImportError: could not import bonobo.ui I'm hearing good things about this package it'd be wonderful to see it on usr-local-bin. TIA, michaelj -- Michael James michael.james(a)csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166

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Getting the latest software?
by Brian Kendig 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Hiya! I'm new to SuSE Linux, and I like it a lot! But I've got a couple of questions as I start out with it... (1) SuSE uses RedHat RPM's, right? Will any rpm file that works on RedHat also work on SuSE? It can't use Debian .deb files, correct? (2) SuSE comes with Gaim 0.59, but the latest version is 0.69. I see that the Gaim web site offers rpm's for RedHat and for Mandrake, but none specifically for SuSE. Will the RedHat version work on SuSE? Or is there somewhere I can obtain the latest version specifically for SuSE? (3) In general, is there a central place to go for SuSE software that's not part of the standard distribution yet? Like, SuSE comes with KDE 3.1.1, but is KDE 3.1.3 available in a way that SuSE can be easily upgraded to? (4) Where does the name 'SuSE' come from, and why is it capitalized weird like that? (5) Bonus question: anybody know how to change the behavior of the KDE Konqueror web browser, so that if I enter 'apple' into the location bar, it goes to 'www.apple.com' instead of doing a Google search on 'apple'?

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How to get camstream to ftp for 'user'?
by John 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi gang, I finally figured out why camstream isn't ftp'ing my snapshots to my webpage. I tried it as root, and it did just fine, but as 'user', I constantly get a message like 'url or domain name couldn't be found' or something like that. So my question is...how to I make it so that as 'user', I can ftp upload with camstream? If anyone remembers my last post, about being assaulted, now I've found out, that someone (I suspect the same person who assaulted me) is also coming and opening my doors and trying (my best guess, and truly believe is correct) to let my dogs out to either run off or so he can try to shoot them or run them over (luckily they are very well trained and stay in the house or in the yard). So, I really need this to work, so that I can use camstream to take snapshots while I'm gone from the house, and upload them to my webpage, in case the asshole (sorry) trashes my computer or steals it. I know locking the doors would be a good idea, but then I'm worried he'd just trash up something even worse trying to get in or a door open, and being disabled and not getting much money a month, there's just no way I can afford fixing something like that. I'm sort of in a lose-lose situation, and the damn law isn't helping me out one bit. Sorry for the sob story, but I'm in dire straits here, and really need *any* kind of help I can get. Thanks gang. John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3rc2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/d9DZH5oDXyLKXKQRAtk1AJ4qo4JAaNYLfn7TyFPxwHHediiQYQCghB9u G7g5/vO0+7oLQeCdOxdmRGI= =v6Wd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Strange problems with Evolution
by Tom Nielsen 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

I'm having a really strange problem with Evolution 1.4.4 ULB. I use Evolution at work and home, basically for the same account - IMAP/smtp. The other day I wasn't able to send email. It just stuck in my inbox for the longest time. I clicked on send and receive and nothing happened. The progress bar just sat on the uploading section. I finally had to cancel. I sent a couple test emails and some would go and some would not, but they all stayed in my inbox. But I was able to send email from my Kmail, which is handles my linuxmail.org account (smtp/pop), without a problem. So today, Anders Johannson mentioned to me to try to setup my work account on Kmail and and setup my Linuxmail account on Evolution and run some tests. So I did. I can send and receive just fine from Kmail on both accounts. I switched over -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 ext.18 www.neuro-logic.com

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Installing samba
by Örn Hansen 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

I've been trying to use apt-rpm to install samba3, but I get version 3.0.0rc4 installed all the time. Using apt-cache to search, I see that both versions are available both at gwdg.de and and uni-bielefeld. But for some reason, version 3.0.0rc4 is treated as a higher version than 3.0.0. Anyone know of a way to force the issue, with apt?

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KMail filter question
by Bart Symons 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

I want to pipe all incoming messages with attachments through a virus scanner. How can I instruct a KMail filter to only work on e-mails with attachments?

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mountd problem
by Julie Xu 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Greeting, I have tried to use nfs mount and have the following error in /var/log/messages: Mounted[1861]: access from host 10.10.1.151 rejected I thought it may be caused by host.allow, so I added: Portman: ALL : ALLOW Rcp.mountd: ALL : ALLOW Rcp.nfsd: ALL : ALLOW And keep host.allow to: ALL:ALL But, it is still not work? Am I still missing something? Any comments will be appreciated Thanks in advance Julie Xu Data Communication Team Information Technology Directorate University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 Penrith South DC NSW 1797

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Re: [SLE] (Revisited) Works in Windoze, NOT in SuSE!?!?!?!?!?!?
by bernd＠covenantmail.net 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

<snip> Here's an addendum to the previous e-mail I just sent. > > Regarding the name servers, all I have ever done is yast/modem (for use with >kinternet), wvdial.conf (for use with wvdial), options (used by pppd), and >kppp. My dns settings are always auto, as my ISP provides them during the >connect sequence. I have not messed with dhcp as John suggested that I do. I >wouldn't know what to do there. Here's the output from the shell when I use wvdial to connect: --> Starting pppd at Sun Sep 28 16:38:29 2003 --> pid of pppd: 1514 --> pppd: Using interface ppp0 --> pppd: local IP address xx.xxx.xxx.xx --> pppd: remote IP address xx.xxx.xxx.xx --> pppd: primary DNS address xxx.x.xxx.xxx --> pppd: secondary DNS address xxx.x.x.xxx --> pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up run successful --> Default route Ok. --> warning, can't find address for `www.suse.de' --> warning, address lookup does not work --> Nameserver (DNS) failure, the connection may not work. --> Connected... Press Ctrl-C to disconnect ***Also, the primary and secondary DNS addresses are not changing at all. They are the same each time I try to connect. Usually, I get new DNS addresses each time I connect. I have checked in yast/modem, and wvdial.conf and all are set to auto. > I have dumped all my yast modem settings, wvdial.conf, and started fresh with system defaults (which has worked in the past, except for connection length problems). Yet the dns problem still remains. > > What on earth have I screwed with to mess up the auto dns settings outside of wvdial.conf and yast/modem??? > > I'm about ready to backup /home, toast it all, and reinstall SuSE from scratch!!!!! Maybe that would take care of everything!?! > > Sorry! Bernd

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Tech Tip iptables
by Carl William Spitzer IV 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

If you have a problem with your firewall rules, you can return iptables to its default state without rebooting with the command: iptables --flush && iptables --delete-chain This flushes the three built-in chains and deletes any you may have added. Doing this leaves your system without firewalling, though, so use this command only when troubleshooting your firewall configuration disconnected from the Internet or with services disabled. _________________________________________________________________ To remove yourself from this list, see www.ssc.com/mailing-lists: http://www.ssc.com/mailing-lists. _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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CLI tool to attach a txt file to an existing e-mail
by Bart Symons 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

From KMail I want to pipe e-mails through a script that uses antivir to scan the e-mail (now a tem file in disk) for virusses. If a virus is found I'ld like to include the result of the scan in the mail, either as a text in the mail body or as a "virusfound.txt" attachment. I had a look at some tools but I didn't find what I was looking for. Any suggestions anyone?

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fetchmail
by Bob Stanfield 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

Folks, I had been using <fetchmail> to collect and distribute my mail to 2 users and various mail folders using cron jobs in SuSE 8.0. Upgraded to SuSE 8.1. <fetchmail> stopped working. Symptoms SuSE 8.1 # fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc fetchmail: Repoll immediately on stanassc(a)mail.eclipse.net fetchmail: 112 messages for stanassc at mail.eclipse.net (346970 octets). fetchmail: reading message stanassc@mail.eclipse.net:1 of 112 (6218 octets) ......fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 4.7.1 Please try again later fetchmail: not flushed etc Not the above collection, but typical from /var/log/mail Sep 22 15:36:48 stanassc sendmail[30902]: h8MJa6wr030902: from=<owner-GRASSLIST(a)baylor.edu>, size=4107, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<16238.13507.716125.406873(a)cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk>, bodytype=7BIT, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] Sep 22 15:36:49 stanassc poll.tcpip: Done mail and news send/fetch Sep 22 15:36:50 stanassc sendmail[30902]: h8MJa6wr030902: Milter: data, reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later Doing a trace on "fetchmail", I find the program is looking for /root/.fetchids, but can't find it because I don't have such a file. I find several elusive references to this file, but nothing as to whether it is essential, what its function might be nor what its format might be. What else might it be? I can collect the mail using mozilla and formail -s promail < Inbox manually. Very inconvenient. Many thanks for what ever help you can give me. Bob Stanfield 29 Ledge Lane Pipersville, PA 18947 Voice 610-294-9884 FAX 610-294-8119

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Samba profile going nuts!
by js 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

I finally got my domain logons to work. Now, my logons take forever using roaming profiles. The XP box does what seems like a complete resync with the samba pdc. How do I restrict what info is sycronized at logon so it doesn't take so long? JS

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RE: [SLE] Samba 3.0
by subscribe 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

Ive installed apt-get, but can't seem to find samba3. What do I do wrong ? --- Trond -----Original Message----- From: Örn Hansen [mailto:orn.hansen@swipnet.se] Sent: 27. september 2003 04:17 To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Samba 3.0 What sources do you use, where samba3 is available? fredag 26 september 2003 21:56 skrev Michael Galloway: > Hi Greg! > > samba 3.x beta's have been available via apt for some time now: > > sif:~ # apt-cache search samba3 > samba3-vscan - samba3-vscan > samba3 - samba3 > samba3-cifsmount - samba3-cifsmount > samba3-client - samba3-client > samba3-doc - samba3-doc > samba3-pdb - samba3-pdb > samba3-utils - samba3-utils > samba3-winbind - samba3-winbind > samba3-wrepld - samba3-wrepld > > -- michael > > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > I see that Samba 3.0 was released yesterday. > > > > Hopefully Lars Muelle (IIRC) will post a SuSE 8.2 rpm soon so we can > > start experimenting with it. > > > > I know it is supposed to have the ability to fully participate in a > > AD domain, but that is about the limit of my knowledge. > > > > Anyone know anything about it from a bug persective? > > > > I'm thinking of putting it on a test server to see how it does, but > > if it has a bunch of known bugs, there is no point. > > > > Greg > > -- > > Greg Freemyer > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional > > commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the > > archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: > > suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Re: lost celandar and task last request before deleting evolution
by landy 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

when i try to click on calendar and task i get could not open $HOME/evolution/Calendar/calendar.ics but the data is there illustre@pepino:~> ls /home/illustre/evolution/local/Calendar/ calendar.ics folder-metadata.xml any idea how to fix this

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Re: [SLE] Why Very Slow DNS on 8.2, But Not on WinXP?
by suse＠sillwood-acre.co.uk 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

> Anyone know why name resolution using my cable provider's nameservers > is impossibly slow on a standard untweaked 8.2 install, but quite fast > with WinXP on the same machine, same provider, same nameservers? > > I see the same slowness whether or not my firewall is running, and > whether or not I'm running a local cacheing nameserver. I found the same problem with Mozilla-family browsers using 8.2. Extensive googling finally turned up http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70213 and http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135724#c24. Briefly 1) these browsers lack reentrant/async DNS lookup, so a site that requires multiple DNS lookups (perhaps for ads) won't load until each has returned. 2) Suse 8.2 specifically turns on IPv6, and some servers can't cope with these requests. You don't say which cache you used, but I suggest you try Squid, which caches (inter alia) the DNS information. For me, this makes mozilla-based browsers like Firebird work as fast as IE. As far as I recall, I just installed it as it came, without any configuration (though you do have to tell your browser to use it as a proxy, localhost port 3128, and you may have to adjust your firewall). The other solution is to use Opera, which worked at full speed on my system. Perhaps worth trying, just to prove that this *is* the problem, though the choice of ads or cash made me go for the first method. Hope this helps. David Hart

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] Re: lost celandar and task last request before deleting evolution
by Dylan 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

Please reply to list posts through the list. Thank you. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [SLE] Re: lost celandar and task last request before deleting evolution Date: Sunday 28 September 2003 15:26 pm From: landy <landy(a)despiertapr.com> To: Dylan <dylan(a)dylan.me.uk> > You could try either: pointing evolution at the real calendar data, or > copying the calendar to where evolution thinks it is... > > hint: Take a good look at your directory paths above >this was working fine so i dont know how it broke >can you tell me where evolution think it is from your original post: Your original post: Evolution is looking in: $HOME/evolution/Calendar/calendar.ics but the data is here: /home/illustre/evolution/local/Calendar You need to tell evolution where the data is. It must be a setting in the preferances somewhere, but since I don't use evolution I can't say exactly where -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg

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